presented by

Founder & Artistic Director MOSES PENDLETON
Associate Director CYNTHIA QUINN 

with 

HEATHER CONN, NATHANIEL DAVIS, DEREK ELLIOTT JR., HAILEY GREEN, AURELIE GARCIA, SEAH HAGAN, AND ADAM ROSS

MOMIX dedicates this performance to Órla Baxendale.  A MOMIX dancer, colleague, and friend who passed all too soon at 25 years old on January 11, 2024.  Órla's spirit, joy, and love will never be forgotten. 

Tonight and always, we dance for her.

Travel down the rabbit hole MOMIX-style with Moses Pendleton’s newest creation, ALICE, inspired by Alice in Wonderland. As Alice’s body grows and shrinks and grows again, MOMIX dancers extend themselves by means of props, ropes, and other dancers.

“We don’t intend to retell the whole Alice story,” he says, “but to use it as a taking off point for invention. I’m curious to see what will emerge, and I’m getting curiouser and curiouser the more I learn about Lewis Caroll. I share his passion for photography and his proclivity for puns”.

The Alice story is full of imagery and absurd logic – before there was Surrealism, there was Alice. Alice is an invitation to invent, to let the imagination run wild. “Go Ask Alice,” sang Grace Slick in “White Rabbit”—she also said, “feed your head.”

Pendleton continues, “You can see why I think Alice is a natural fit for MOMIX and an opportunity for us to extend our reach. We want to take this show into places we haven’t been before in terms of the fusion of dance, lighting, music, costumes, and projected imagery. Our puns are visual, not verbal. It’s not modern dance, it’s Momix – under the spell of Lewis Carroll, who was under the spell of Alice – who was still learning to spell.”

 As with every MOMIX production, you never quite know what you are going to get. Hopefully, audiences will be taken on a journey that is both magical, mysterious, fun, eccentric and much more. As Alice falls down the rabbit hole and experiences every kind of transformation, we invite you to follow her.

We see Alice as an invitation to invent, to dream, to alter the way we perceive the world,
to open it to new possibilities. The stage is our rabbit hole, we welcome you to drop in!”
                                                                                                              -- Moses Pendleton, Artistic Director

Conceived and Directed by: MOSES PENDLETON

Associate Director:  CYNTHIA QUINN

Assisted by: ANTHONY BOCCONI, BEAU CAMPBELL, JENNIFER CHICHEPORTICHE, SAMANTHA CHIESA, HEATHER CONN, GREGORY DE ARMOND,  JONATHAN EDEN, MATT GIORDANO, SEAH HAGAN, HANNAH KLINKMAN, SEAN LANGFORD, HEATHER MAGEE, SARAH NACHBAUER, JADE PRIMICIAS, REBECCA RASMUSSEN, COLTON WALL, and JASON WILLIAMS

Production Manager & Lighting Supervisor:  WOODROW F. DICK III

Technical Crew:  ALEXA DENNEY, LILY FONTES, COLIN NEUKIRCH                       

Lighting Design: MICHAEL KORSCH

Music Collage:  MOSES PENDLETON

Music Editing:  ANDREW HANSON

Video Design:  WOODROW F. DICK, III

Spider Puppet Design:  MICHAEL CURRY

Costume Design:  PHOEBE KATZIN

Costume Construction: PHOEBE KATZIN & BERYL TAYLOR

Ballet Mistress: VICTORIA MAZZARELLI

Research Consultant: PHILIP HOLLAND

Communications Manager:  QUINN PENDLETON

Company Manager: PAULA BUDETTI BURNS

This production of Alice has been funded, in part, by a contribution from Next Move Dance.

"Would you tell me, please. which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”

“I don’t much care where -”

ACT ONE: Down the Rabbit Hole

A Summer Day
Alice Down the Rabbit Hole
Pool of Tears
A Trip of Rabbits
The Tweedles
The Cheshire Cat
Advice from a Blue Caterpillar
The Lobster Quadrille
Mad Hatters
The Queen of Diamonds
The Queen of Clubs Versus The Queen of Spades
The Mad Queen of Hearts
Cracked Mirrors

ACT TWO: Through the Looking Glass

There is Another Shore
Into the Woods
The Wolf-Spied-Her
Looking Through Stained Glass
Garden of Molar Bears & Other Creatures
The Mock Turtle Deflated
Trial of the Fallen Cards
Bed of Roses
Go Ask Alice

Alice Soundtrack

Des Chapeaux dans les Lapins by Odezenne - Alix Calliet, Jacques Cormary, and Matthia Lucchini, SDRM; Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks, Womb Duvet by Origamibiro -Tom Hill, Andy Tytherleigh, and The Joy of Box, Two Thousand and Eleven Ribbon Music; Faster and Faster by Tony Kinsey, KMP LTD; Fortress of Doors, Fungiferous Flora, Skool Daze, Falling Down the Rabbit Hole by Chris Vrenna & Mark Blasquez, Almo/Pink Lava; Taal Se Taal by Alka Yagnik & Udit Narayan - A.R. Rahman & Anand Bakshi, Tips Industry Music Publishing; The Cheshire Cat by Danny Elfman, Wonderland Music Company; Restless by Sounds from the Ground - Nick Woolfson & Eliot Jones, Sherlock Holmes Music LTD; The Lobster Quadrille by Franz Ferdinand - Alexander Huntley, Nick McCarthy, Paul Thompson, and Robert Hardy, Universal Polygram Intl.; Mexicali, Jacquadi by Polo and Pan - Paul Armand-Delille & Alexandre Grynszpan, EOS; 1977 by Ana Tijoux, BMG; Don't Worry, We'll Be Watching You, Smoke and Mirrors by Gotye - Wouter De Backer, Songs of Kobalt Music.; Prologue/Cherry Ripe by Richard Hartley, He Pro Tunes, Inc.; The Sea by Joey Pecoraro, Rough Trade Songs; Divine Moments of Truth by Shpongle - Simon James Posford & Raja Ram, Twisted Music LTD; Requiem by House Made of Dawn, Arcane Creative Publishing; 2 Songar (Two Songs) II Vogguvis (Lullaby) by Jon Leifs, Iceland Music Information Center; Indifferent Universe, Liminalidad, Espera by Lucrecia Dalt, RVNG Intl.;  White Rabbit Written by Grace Slick, Published by Mole Music (BMI) All rights reserved, (used by permission); Perpetuum Mobile by Simon Jeffes, Daniel Myer, Barbara Thompson, and Dejan Samardzic, Editions Penguin Cafe LTD.

MOMIX, a company of dancer-illusionists founded and directed by Moses Pendleton, has been presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty for more than 40 years. From its base in Washington, Connecticut, the company has developed a devoted worldwide following. In addition to stage performances, MOMIX has also worked in film and television, as well as corporate advertising, with national commercials for Hanes and Target, and presentations for Mercedes-Benz, Fiat, and Pirelli. With performances on PBS’s Dance in America series, France’s Antenne II, and Italian RAI television, the company’s repertory has been beamed to 55 countries. The Rhombus Media film of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with MOMIX and the Montreal Symphony was the winner of an International Emmy for Best Performing Arts Special. MOMIX was also featured in IMAGINE, one of the first 3-D IMAX films released in IMAX theaters worldwide. MOMIX dancers Cynthia Quinn and Karl Baumann, under Moses Pendleton’s direction, played the role of “Bluey” in the feature film F/X2, and White Widow, co-choreographed by Pendleton and Quinn, was featured in Robert Altman’s movie The Company. With nothing more than light, shadow, fabric, props, and the human body, MOMIX continues to astonish and delight audiences on five continents.

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